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fox 45 morning news. all local, all morning. >> good morning, welcome to fox 45 morning news. today is friday, november 6. i'm megan gilland. well take a look at our weather with meteorologist steve now. >> i want to look at that scrooge movie. >> it'll be good. jim carrey plays like eight different roles in it. >> oh, weather, yes. >> weather. >> that's why i'm here. >> we have cold temperatures but not as cold as it will be tonight. real cold night getting down freezing. freeze warnings in effect for some counties. we will talk about that in a little bit. but -- >> a dry weekend. >> a dry weekend. >> that's what we like. >> that, i think you will appreciate it. we will look at sky watch hd ray doctor and i think you will find clouds back west. other than that it is a clear start. there were showers yesterday moving through parts of the area but an whole lot of activity. today the morning forecast includes the 38 degree starting

temperature with mainly clear skies at bus stop. west winds at 5 to 10 miles an hour. you will definitely want the heavier jacket or coast actually because again it is a chilly start. 48° and chilly finish too. noon time temperature of 48. we top out around 51° at 1:00. 45° by 6:00 p.m. with clear skies. again these temperatures, some places cooler than others but we will be talking about some nice weather conditions coming your way as a pattern change occurs over the weekend. more in a few minutes but let's see what is happening on roadwayes with candace. >> thank you, see. i sure do. can i tell but fire activity in the northeast corner you will find some flashing lights on the scene of. mountain road at green spring avenue. we will continue to keep you upto date on this one. so far no lane or road closure as a result of. that on 95 near mountain road we we can show you the scene there. you definitely see a lot of cars traveling but no delays to talk about. this is about just over a pile from that scene there.

just in relation you can see it is really just pretty busy through that entire area. 95 a little bit further down, taking it through the city and fort mchenry tunnel towards the beltway, a pretty normal ride there. 8 minutes for your drive time and 55 for average speed. checking in on the beltway, outer linees from 95 towards 83 that will only take 11 minutes. so you will travel around 55 miles an hour. average of 54 miles for hour taking it t from 83 towards 795. right now we are looking a the an eight-minute clip. for the 795 to 95, so far so good. 11 minutes and 54 miles per hour. that's a look at your morning travels. megan back over to you. >> >> we are continuing to follow a developing story this morning. a 13th person dies overnight in the fort hood, texas shooting. 30 remain injuries. the shooting rampage started at 1 ron 30 yesterday afternoon. it is the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the

united states. military officials believe a major on the base, nidal hasan is the shooter. hasan is not dead as previously reported. >> he is currently in custody. and in stable condition. i say again, the shooter is not dead but in custody and in stable condition. >> there is going to be a lot of focus on maybe people that he spoke to. why some action wasn't taken. i don't don't doubt for a second there will be a lot of red flags floating around about this guy. >> meanwhile we are learning more about the man suspected in the shooting rampage. the mosque his son attended says the army psychiatrist did not seem an an extremist. he knew hasan for more than ten years and he was quiet and ten years and he was act you'vely looking for a wife through a program at the mosque. he says in the program application, there hasan listed himself as palestinian even though he was born right here in the united states. now, hasan does have ties to our area. jody smith is live with more on that and possibly what

could have been motive for this massive shooting. good morning, joel. >> good morning megan. 39-year-old army psychiatrist does have song to ties to this region. born if 15, graduated from virginia tech and six years at walter reed hospital in bees thisda. folks we talked to at his former apartment in silver springs never saw this coming. he opened fire at the army readiness center on base. that's what it is called. soldiers get their medical screenings before and after deployment. he used two handguns, one a semiautomatic. when he was done, 12 people were dead and 31 others injured. he was thought to be killed by return gunfire but now we know he was rounded and in custody in stable condition. friends and parents ever soldiers, as you can imagine, were calming family all day. peggy did her best. >> i tried calling kera on her cell phone. i tried texting, i didn't get no response.

so at that point i called her husband in minnesota and he he said he talked to her but heard chaos and then the phone went dead. so i guess he was talking to her during the time of the shooting. >> good news for her, mccarty says the bullet hit her daughter in the shoulder. he will survive though. >> look at this. new video from a convenient store just in from yesterday morning. few hours before hasan was actually allegedly involved in this shooting. this is a place where you frequented and dress in traditional arab guard here. the cashier at this 7-eleven said hasan was worried about his upcoming deployment and was upset about fighting potential fell why muslims in afghanistan and iraq. the city associated press said hasan came to to their attention at least six months ago because of internet postings about homicide bombings and other threats. megan? >> joel, if he was against the u.s. efforts being in the middle east there, did he ever try to get out of military?

was he trying to not be a part of this any more? >> we are learning he was pursuing a discharge. that's what some family and friends say. but he was in the military since out of high school. in the end friends say he was hoping that president obama himself would just pull troops out of iraq and afghanistan. obviously that did not happen. a family member said he was a good american and quote, we are shocked. >> thank you very much. we will check back in with you in a few minutes. can you stay with fox 45 news for the latest information on the shooting. we will cover the stories all morning long at top and bottom of the hour. >> the off duty police officer stabbed outside a nightclub yesterday morning has been released from the hospital. the 42-year-old checked out last night after being treated for wounds to the neck and to the back. investigators say he was leaving christina's on north point boulevard when he got into a fight with another man. that's when the man pulled out a knife leading the officer to open fire. at least check, the man he

thought was still in the hospital in serious but stable condition, police are still trying to determine if the two men knew each other. paragraph. mayor sheila dickson heads it trial on charges of theft next week. jury selection starts monday on the case in which dickson is accused of steeling gift cards from the needy. the mayor is accused of permingry but she will be tried separately on those charges. meantime there is still a lot of uncertainty over who will be footing the bill for the may or's legal fees. dickson has seven criminal defense attorneys working on her case and the pay could run into the hundreds of thousands of doll for them. the mayor's lawyers won't say if they are working pro bono if they will be compensated. dickson could pay on their own but if acquitted she can submit the bill to the city board of estimates. that means taxpayers could end up footing this bill. when mayor dickson goes to trial, stay with fox 45 for the latest on the case we will bring you live reports in all of our

news casts. coming up, nearly a year on the job, the report card for president obama. what has gone right, what hasn't. and a classic bill of outlaw lovers. we will tell you where can you see the famous romeo and julie and that's why more folks choose dunkin' donuts coffee to get their day off to a fresh, delicious start.

>>here art thou romeo? romeo and juliet. live with the details in this morning's hometown, good morning to you guys. good morning. or is it just steve? >> yes, louis could not be here

but he sends his regards. >> we are glad you were here and have you a lot to show us. you are actually going to give us a little bit after taste of what is to come? >> yes. yes. we are going to show you the end of our first act which is the dual between mercutio undoable. >> for those that don't know what romeo and july set about. tell us about the theme of this play. >> two families are having a feud. a child from each family, romeo and juliet, fall in love and everybody gets upset because they are not supposed to love each other. they hide their love and everything gets tangled and ends up tram di. but it as comedy so someone dies. >> now your play is a little bit different because there is a lot of sword fighting involved. >> yes, yes. there is always sword fighting involved in romeo and juliet. but by are lucky to have louis shaw come in and work with students. >> right. well before we go we want to see some of the sword fighting. let's get a look at that. >> okay, let's turn it over to the performers. >>

♪ ♪ ♪ >> romeo and juliet at the university center for the arts main take theater. it is tonight and tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. for more information check out our website, fox baltimore.com/morning. >> looks like bow bias from american idol. looks just like him. a dry start to the day. i hope that's not bo bice, by the way. we have dry conditions. yesterday now we did have showers out there in spots. but not everybody dealing with the showers. as you can see, we are looking pretty good compared to north, where in new england, see something snow showers moving through. new york state and we will remain dry here. high pressure will build in. as it does, we get on the east side of it first.

another cool day with a northerly flow. but eventually as that high continues to drift further east we have more warm air coming up from the south. have you to be well north so the tendency is to see warmer temperatures move in here as we get past today and into the weekend and especially toward the end of the weekend and you can see it not indicating any kind of rain expected over the next few days. >> next clans of rain probably not until midweek next week. for now though, at 41° in salisbury and also if baltimore. 42° in d.c. 38 in hagerstown. out in oakland, 30° there. and temperatures just not climbing a whole lot. look for a high temperature, eastern shore, 51° with norm west wind. 20 to 25 mile-an-hour winds, gusting higher than that. lots of sunshine. at least it'll look real pretty but it'll fell cooler with temperatures getting to 51° and wind up around 10 to 20 miles per hour out of the northwest. back to the west we good. look for a high temperature here

of just 50° or. so maybe even 49. not getting out of the 40's with lots of sunshine. northwest wind from 10 to 15 miles an hour, making it feel chillier as well. 52° for the low. mainly clear skies, it'll be cold night indeed. in fact so cold a freeze warning overnight into tomorrow morning and down through pg county it looks like and an anne arundel el county as well and counties on the west side really on the chesapeake bay. then also on the southern part of the eastern shore understand this freeze warning tonight into tomorrow morning. very chilly night indeed heading out tonight, you will want to dress a little extra warmly. take a long at forecast for the day today. you will see we only get from 39th starting average to about 48 by noon hour with presentee of sunshine. 45° clear skies tonight though but definitely cool. then tomorrow, little better temperature wise, 58°. lots of sun. 65. whole lot better sunday. starting to look like a great day. mainly clear skies.

mainly clear again monday. looking like another great one. 56 partly cloudy tuesday. 57 for veteran's day. partly cloudy and 56 and partly cloudy for your thursday. maybe a shower in the middle part of next week, a light one at that. skywatch weather is now at your fingertips. radar is available. use fox 45's powerful radar. and interactive tools, you see exactly when rain or snow is at your house. good to foxbaltimore.com and click on radar. thank you. steve. i do indeed know awe and i can share that with you right now, those speeds there are starting to drop a little bit. 49 miles per hour in the northeast corner. looking at 62 on the south of the city and 64 traxing on 95 through howard county but we are indeed talking about howard county because after crash that completely shuts down sally quarter road. you will want to stick with

route 32 as your alternate. through howard county moving on 70 right now, it is pretty calm from route 29 heading towards the beltway. we can show you the west side of the beltway is in the green. here it is on the beltway at 70. you can see the cars starting to file in but so far just a bit after cluttered ride. no significant delayes it talk b. then a little bit further at liberty road, it is getting again, pretty calm and just moderate congestion there. and in the inner loop direction towards 795 and nothing to discurb you on the top side moving through pikesville heading up towards jfx. around 83 north of 695 traveling through baltimore county southbound lanes approaching the beltway, we will take it this morning. low activity both north and southbound end. that's a look at your morning travels. megan back over to you. >> thank you, canned as. how far can k you chunk a pumpkin? we are shooting for a mile. another person dies

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68,000. october was a mixed bag for retailers. overall sales were up 1.8% track bid thompson reuters, much better than the 4% drop posted last year. shoppers preferred billing box over retailers. macy's limited brand and abercrombie & fitch reported declining sales. >> coming up, we are continuing to follow a developing story this morning. a 13th person dies evernight in the fort hood texas shooting and this person is from our area. plus, one year since president obama was elected president and close to a year on the job. our d.c. inside

>>ne year ago president back was vote need the coveted position promising change. he spoke of national health care and hopes to return our troops fighting in afghanistan and iraq back home. so how is the president coulding on those promises now after almost 365 days? our d.c. insider and political commentator armstrong joins us for our washington rap. good morning armstrong. >> good morning megan. >> the president said the road

is long, the climb is steep. are we close to the goals he set out? >> unfortunately, not. i have tried to find some precedence for what the president and his policies, with pelosi and reid are trying to put in place. in reading something from carle mark, how do you take a capitalistic nation into a socialist nation. the first thing have you to do is destroy the economic base. then make people dependent on government then you must create class warfare. you must ask yourself whether or not the kind of policies from healthcare to cap and trade to everything else that this president has put in place doesn't reflect the values of the american people. and it doesn't. and i think that was brought home earlier this week when the president and his party lost the bluest of states, which is was new jersey. then, mcdonald won by 19% over virginia. why would you destroy small businesses if you really want to help people with employment?

why would you put a healthcare plan in place where you realize that healthcare should be between the physician and patient. why would you force these small business owners to pay additional insurance where they have to make a decision where they are already struggling to layoff employees, why would you throw billions of wall street, aig and other firms and can you take that money and give it to small businesses like people in hair salons, barber shops, restaurants, where they are -- they are the businesses that really create jobs in this economy. you have to ask yourself, is he trying to destroy our economic base. >> i want to ask you, to play devil's advocate here. president obama says he wants to do this healthcare reform to touch every american and do that for the better of the people. your thoughts on that when he says he is looking out for everybody. >> listen, all have you to do is look at medicare, social security, even the post office. what has the government ever run efficiently over long-term? medicare is in bankrupt. social security is bankrupt.

listen, i believe the president is sincere and noble in what he is doing but i don't think he understands what we are as american what we want. people must do for themselves. you cannot take from the rich to feed the poor. the poor, the poor needs to learn how to fish for themselves. it is bizarre what president is doing. it is not working. he lost the independent voters. he lost minority voters. and i dent know where his base is any more. and it seems as though they have not gotten the message that the american people may like him individually and give him a high rating but they have total disdain for his policies. >> armstrong, thank you very much. he has 3 years and 2 months to complete prom promises. >> thank you. have a nice weekend. >> you too. >> coming up, could a rematch be brewing between governor martin o'malley and former governor bob you are lick. predictions after possible outcome. >> coming up, the latest on the

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>> the trial for the man accused of throwing his son off the key bridge. tonight on fox h a news at 5:30. >> good morning, welcome back to fox 45 morning news. and welcome to the weekend. i'm megan gilliland. meteorologist steve is here to let us know how the weekend will be shaping up for us. you might need a jacket. chilly out there. >> it is chilly. and you might need a jacket if have you friday night plans as many will.

>> yeah. >> we have this pattern change that will be coming our way after today. today a cool one as megan says. chilly. take a look at clear skies, that's one of the reasons why. northerly flow. 42 in d.c. 41 in salts burry. up in hagerstown and in oakland, 30° right now. we do expect to get up to about 51° for the high. looking windy this afternoon too. northwest wind at 10. 20 miles an hour making for a very cool one. so cool today and windy. but sunny. we will accept that i think and trade-off sunshine with warmer temperatures, an trade-off at all. you will get it all. saturday through tuesday and no rain coming our way it looks like until maybe midweek next week and even then it would be just light rain if we get anything at all. generally a nice weather coming your way just cool today. let's see what is happening now on roadways with canned add dold. she is here with a look at your traffic, candace? >> for friday morning not too many incidents on the main line.

we do have a crash, that's for everyone moving through an anne arundel el county. we can show what you that looks like and here it is, on the north and southbound ra lanes. can you see it is cruising along in both directions. as for the beltway, taking it from 795, heading down toward the 95 exit, it is moving pretty normal but we do have a one-minute delay that will take 13 minutes and you will travel at 49 miles per hour on average speed there. the out irloop lanes from 95 towards 83, again all normal here. 11-minute ride towards 55 miles per hour. 95 through city and tunnel taking it down towards the beltway, that will take 8 minutes and you will travel there at 55. at 54 miles per hour. 8 minute right and shooting from harbor tunnel towards the 95 exit. that's a look at your morning travels. megan, back over to you. >> we are continuing to follow a developing story this morning.

another person dies overnight after being injured in the shooting rampage at fort hood in texas. it is the worst mass shooting ever at a military base here in the united states. the total death count, now stands at 13, with 30 wounded. police say the suspected shooter, major nidal hasan opened fire around 1:30 yesterday afternoon. this morning president obama is asking that americans keep the victims in their prayers. >> it is difficult enough when we lose these brave americans in battles overseas, it is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on american soil. >> meanwhile we are learning more about the man suspected in the shooting rampage. the silver spring mesotheca his son attended says the army psychiatrist didn't seem like an extremist. he knew hasan for more than ten years and he was quiet and reserved. caan said hasan was actively looking for a wife through the

program there at mosque. he says on the program application hasan listed himself as palestinian even though he was born in the united states. this morning major hasan is not dead as originally thought. he is wounded but in stable condition and in custody this morning and as it turns out, hasan has ties hear to our area. joel smith is live with what may have led to the shooting. good morning joel. >> good morning. some family and friends of major hasan says he was upset about his coming deployment coming up in weeks and he did not agree with the war in iraq and afghanistan. he worked at the soldier readiness where soldiers get help before and after deployment. eventually 13 people were killed, 30 more wounded. he was said to be killed by gunfire but now we know he was just wounded and is in stable condition and in custody. hasan does have strong ties to our region. he was born in virginia and

graduated from virginia tech and serves six years at walter reed hospital in bees thisda. while there, he lived in silver string. we talked to one of thinks former neighbors there last night. >> if you ask me about t he could have snapped and killed people in this building. all these kids and people around and everything. that's what kind of scares me. >> we are learning more about the hours before the alleged massacre. now we also have this new video in. this is what we are talking about. this is supposed to be hasan himself apparently in an austin 7-eleven in the shooting, you see him wearing traditional arab gash. gash. the cashier saying hasan and him often talked about being a muslim. and that he was upset about being deployed and going overseas and having to kill other muslims.

they were trying to figure out if it was hasan exactly who was the author of these reports -- >> a sill civilian officers shot him down from all of this so we know where the reports came from. >> just coming in megan. they thought one of the victims was the actually shooter this. is difficult situation because it is one of their own involved. a few hours late are they continued their investigation and figure had out that one wined, major hasan was their gunman instead. >> joel thank you very much. we will check back in with you in a few minutes. can you stay with fox 45 news for the latest on the shooting. we will cover this story all day long at the top and bottom of each hour. maryland's gubinatorial election is one year away and a poll shows how voters feel about a possible rematch between governor o'malley and former governor bob ehrlich. the poll shows 39% of voters say they want governor o'malley re-elected. 48% want someone new to winglet mallly leader lick 4.

he plans to commission his own poll in just a if you weeks. we want know, who would you vote for in a rematch between governor o'malley and former governor you are lick. we will open our phone lines in just a bit. can you tell us what you think or sound off through face back. send a tweet through fox baltimore or text 45203 and foursome 5 and enter fox 45a for ehrlich or fox 45b for o'malley. our house mental break contest, just good to fox baltimore.com and send your money saving tips and could you breeze through the holiday season without having to worry about how you will pay for the holiday gift. that's because the grand prize winner gets a gift card. stay tuned, we will announce our final qualifier later this

morning. don't forget, house returns with an all new episode monday night at 8:00 here on fox 45. >> still to come, months of debate on healthcare return. could finally come to a vote tomorrow. elijah cummings joins us live in the studio to give us his take on the bill. >> and friday morning, we are gearing up for that rush. check out 695 here at 70. it is completely packed there on the outer lanes. i'll tell what you you need know before you head out the do

>> of 38:00 now on this friday morning and meteorologist steve fertig is here to let us know how the day will shape up, hello, steve. >> hello, meganment an lot of warmth out there but we will see warmer temperatures on the way for the weekend. take a look at sky watch radar and you will see on a is acquisitummage not a whole lot happening. we saw a few showers moving through parts of the air where with you an big deal. you look up new york state and blue indicating snow falling that way. you travel up that direction and you probably will be able to avoid air building in and that will dissipate but it is going to be a cool start to the

weekend and then things will warm up as we get into the latter part of the weekend, meaning sunday, monday and tuesday and 60's will return. right now 41° in the harbor. winds out of west northwest and 62% relative humidity indicating it is pretty dry. 32.7 and rising on the barometer, also indicating 2 the for dew point temperatures and other temperatures around the area as we speak 41° in both baltimore and salisbury. up in hagerstown, 38. cooler west towards mountains, 30° if oakland. and again, just clouds west and part of the area clearer skies to where we are thanks to high pressure building in. on the east side of the high we have northerly flow. does keep us cool for another day but eventually we will see on the west side of that high pressure southernly flow and that will bring warmer temperatures back into the forecast for again the end of the weekend. next cold front may be through here by midweek next week and chance after shower and also out

of the picture we aren't seeing here but i have to tell through a tropical depression ida moving out of honduras and moving to the north and down the peninsula and maybe posing a threat as it may restrengthen in normal waters toward the west coast of florida by next week. that is something we will keep an eye on for you. otherwise across the country. rather calm, seeing showers there thanks to stationary boundry but that not due to tropical depression at all. meanwhile, climbing to about 51°. cool, northwest wind at 15 to 25 miles an hour. it will be breezy too. that will make it feel chillier too. looks prettier from inside looking out, right? through the win debecause inside is more comfortable than the a 1 you encounter with high temperatures today. 20 mile-an-hour wind in the central part of the state. close to the same just like eastern shores. back west again so close but maybe a couple degrees cooler. 49 for the high and western part of maryland with sunshine. northwest to 10 to 15 miles an

hour. tonight dropping down to the freezing mark of 32. northwest winds at 5 to 10 miles an hour. cold night indeed. you want to be ready for that if you've got outdoor plans tonight. freeze warning in effect for baltimore county and harbor county and along the west side of the chesapeake by and that's tonight into tomorrow morning. for today look for temperatures to climb only a little bit up to about 48°. by noon. and then back to 4 a° at 6:00 p.m. after hitting our high temperature around 1:00. 58° for tomorrow's high so definitely improvement for saturday with lots of sunshine. 65° mostly clear on sunday, here comes that warmth back into the forecast for sunday, monday and tuesday in mid 60's. 66 and for both monday and tuesday. and then veteran's day, 57° for the high. little cooler but not too bad. partly cloudy for wednesday and same for thursday with a high of 56. fox 45 skywatch weather is now at your fingertips. high radar available at fox baltimore.com. can you use fox 45's powerful

doppler radar. interactive tools with run or snow will be over your house but good to fox baltimore.com and click on hi radar. now candace dold is back with another look at your traffic radar. candace? [inaudible] >> i can tell you it is going to be a pretty difficult rideout there on several of the main lines. now looking at 47 miles per houring traveling on 95 in northeast corner then 61 on 95 through the city. now the west side of the beltway though, that is where we are seeing problems. we can show you 695 at liberty road. zooming in on that and it is going to a lot of brake lights there. and that is the same approaching 70. let me show what it looks like on 695 at 70. it is a bear of ride there. check out these outer lanes. just going to be a straight deck of cards coming down that pike. if eventually towardscateinville

as well. the entire west side is the busy side this morning. but can you see it does ease up a bit. down towards 95. on 95 and 2 the 5 we tell that you in the green, that is pretty much incident-free. but that is not the case further down though. there is a southbound lanes of 295. right inside the capitol beltway at route 410. so 95 is the better option for your alternate route. that's a look at your travels, megan back over to you. >> thank you. just ahead, the day may finally be here. the house is expected to vote on healthcare reform tomorrow. plus, congressman elijah cummings, his prediction, if it will pass after the break. plus , this christmas season will bring a little jim carrey with it in 3-d. a preview of the christmas carol coming up.

>new this morning a 13th person dies overnight in the fort hood texas shooting. 340 remain injured. military officials believe a major on that base, nidal hasan is the shooter. hasan is not dead as previously reported. the father who admitted to throwing his toddler off the key bridge is scheduled it head to court today. steven todd nelson entered the equivalent of an insanity plea in the death of 3-year-old turner jordan nelson. he claims demons made him do it. across our region protests against government-run healthcare. yesterday people rallied in howard county and outside the capital to voice their opinion sending the message that they are against the bill's working their way through the house and through the senate. now at the same time, that bill picked up two big endorsements from the american medical association and aarp. but with the end of the year deadline it appears this bill is now in race against time. congressman elijah cummings joins us now to weigh in.

good morning. >> good morning. >> the president is hoping to get this passed tomorrow. 10.12 trillion bill. the chances of this getting pass said really a fight against time at this point. >> it is a fight but we are going to pass the bill. there are a lot of people right now who are watching us right now who are lying in bed cannot get the healthcare that they need this. bill will address that. and keep in mind, this whole idea of preexisting conditions, the democrat bill will get rid of preexisting conditions. the republicans have put forth a bill but basically the same old same old. they don't insure but maybe another 3 million people. we've got 46 million plus uninsured and counting everyday. at the same time they leave in preexisting conditions. they say if you have preexisting condition you can be turn aid way from insurance no matter how much money you may have. >> right. >> that is still a problem. >> unfortunately money is a big issue right now with the economy being the way it is under the

gop bill, nonpartisan congressional office said it would leave millions uninsured as you say however it would save a lot of money in the long run. >> but it does not help americans. one of the things it doesn't do, keep in mind, people who have insurance keep their insurance. but the problem is, is that the cost of insure suns skyrocketing and the gop proposal does nothing about that. and the "washington post" made that clear. it as terrible plan. basically i don't know what they are thinking. they assume this problem will just go away. well, guess what, it is not going away. it is getting worse and worse every year. so you can't continue to allow premiums to go up the way they are going up. that's what we have tried to do. >> if we continue to spend money won't that damper the economy. isn't that hurting us more in the long run. >> the budget office and we don't control that. that's an independent body is that we will cut the deficit because we will reduce the cost of healthcare with the democratic. so and i wish -- and i know people are upset but they need

to read the bill and they will understand that this bill will probably help 95% of the very people that are protesting would help them and their families. congressman, let's talk about the facts of what is passing. do you think it'll be ready, the draft will be ready for you to vote on tomorrow? >> the bill has been filed and there are amendment to the filing. we will vote on. it we have to start voting on it probably tonight and tomorrow. >> yes. >> with public option in there? >> with the public option. the bill will pass the house, i predict with public option in it. >> if it z lets say it passes the house tomorrow, what happens in the senate does not approve bit end of the year deadline? >> first of all i believe the senate will. and then there is talk it may not, but even if it does, we will do it in on. in other words they pass their, we will pass ours and then it goes into conference and then we come out with a bill. >> let's say time is not on the side for this bill and doesn't get past by january, now we head into an election year. does that damper it? >> i think it makes it more difficult as closer we get to an

election but this is a moral issue. let me be clear. we can sit around and talk about how we don't want the reform healthcare. if we don't do it now it went be done probably in the next 30 or who years. if you want your healthcare cost do go up, premiums, that's almost every single american, then you are against the bill. if you want them to remember duced, say get rid of preexisting conditions an things of that nature, then you want this bill. >> congressman, before we let you go, we know have you a big thing monday, college fair. >> young people trying to good to school, monday. we have our college fair, library from 5 to 7, is absolutely free. please come out. >> future generation. >> future generation. >> congressman elijah cummings, as always thank you very much for coming in. >> thank you. >> congressman elijah cummings, a free lie prairie central branch on cathedral street monday from 5 to 7:00 p.m. coming up in our 7:00 hour, a devastating scene from fort

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>> next on fox 45 morning news -- >> the shooter is not dead but in custody and in stable condition. >> the mass shooting at fort hood, the gunman's connection to maryland. >> it's time to chunk that pumpkin. we are live at world championship chunkin pumpkin all morning. >> he knows the diamond but what about the gridiron? take awning baseball legend

brooke robinson in this week's pig skin prediction. >> live in high definition from wbfftv in baltimore. this is fox 45 morning news all local, all morning. >> good morning and welcome to fox 45 morning news. you are taking a live look, a shooting at fort hood texas leaves 13 dead and 30 wounded right now what you are looking at right now is home of the cousin of the suspected shooter. this is in falls church, virginia. we are learning more and more about the suspected shooter whether at his cousin's house in virginia or that he has ties to our area. well, we are continuing to follow this story and we will bring you updates throughout the hour here this morning. good morning. welcome to fox 45 morning news. today is friday. we are ready for the weekend here. meteorologist steer is here to let us know exactly what we can expect if we are heading into that weekend we are looking forward to here. >> we are looking for sunshine. >> sunshine, football and warmer

temperatures by second half of the weekend. >> i'll take it as long as there is no rain. >> it'll be cool today and we will see -- a cool windy day today. maybe not feeling so great outside but looking real pretty and heading towards better weather coming your way for the weekend. 41° your temperature by now in baltimore. 42 in washington, d.c. 41 in salisbury. less than you see 37 in hagerstown. 33 cooler in oakland. mainly clear skies the majority of us, out west a few clouds extend. dry with high pressure building. snow showers that are dissipating over the last hour. we did have why overnight there as low pressure moves east. high pressure for us a very nice afternoon as for as sky conditions. 45 at 6:00 p.m. after topping out around 1:00 p.m. with a hive 51. wind will be up there ail bit. 10 to 20 miles an hour. a pretty chilly day even though it'll look pretty. we will talk about the rest of the weekend which looks so much

nicer. just a few minutes but right now candace dold looking a at the traffic and roadways. >> i'm glad have you a pretty picture, steve, because unfortunately that's not exactly the case on the roadways, 695 and 70 just jam-packed there on those outer lanes. that continues to be the case. some of those are not even moving there. it is friday morning. that rush is on. that's for sure. lanes further back from 95 down to 83, a pretty normal ride there. no delay. 11 minutes for actual time to get there and the 53 is going to be average speed. now, taking it on the other main lines, southbound 95 from tunnel towards that beltway looking at 8-minute clip. 55 miles per hour and same there photographing on southbound 895. you are just looking at nine-minute ride. you will take southbound 95 to 332 and moving through howard county. 62 is half wrath speed. that a look at your morning.

megan, back over to you. >> we are continuing to follow a developing story this morning. another person died overnight after being injured in the shooting lamb page at fort hood in texas much it is the worst mass shooting ever at a military base here in the use. the total death count stands at 13 with 30 pounded. police say the suspected shooter nidal hasan opened fire around 1:30 yesterday afternoon. this afternoon president is asking that you keep the victims in your prayers. >> difficult enough when we lose these brave americans in battles oversea he. it is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on american oil. >> meanwhile we are learning more about the man suspected in that rampage.

caa nsaid's he knew hasan for more than ten years and he was a quiet and reserved man. caan says hasan was actively looking for a wife through the program at the mosque there. he says opt program application, hasson listed himself as palestinian even though he was born here in the united states. hasan has ties to our area. we have live on what could have been the motive for this massive shooting. good morning joel. >> good morning. 3 the-year-old army psychiatrist, that's tock ties for our region. now we are learning more about his training a trained doctor at walter reed says hasan had difficulties as intern at walter reed and required counseling as well. he said hasan had problems with patients but would not detail those. hasan is accused of course of opening fire at soldier readiness on base where soldiers get medical screenings before and after deployment. he is said to have used two hand

guns in the attack. one of them a semiautomatic. hasan his self wad it to be killed. but now we know he was just wounded and is in stable condition. his family says they are shocked by all of this but he has had problems with the military in the past. >> he was dealing with harassment with some of his military colleagues. and you know, to the extent where he hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved. he was at end of trying everything to try to make everybody fair and reasonable and him get out of the situation. so i'm really you know, i'm shocked. >> i will make a correction here. 13 dead and 30 wanted is the current number. this is new video from convenient store yesterday morning where hasan is said to have frequented. you see there dressed in traditional arab gash. the cashier says hasan was

worried about his upcoming deployment and worried about fighting fell why muslims in afghanistan and iraq. hasan had come to attention at least six months a i go because of internet postings of threats. a few hours ago his apartment was raided in texas to try to find out more, that is near fort hood. megan? >> joel, last night there was a military news conference then we haven't heard from them since. any word on when we will get an update in a shooting. >> a live conference is scheduled at for the hood at 7:30, we will take through live. >> thank you so so much. we will check back in with you in a few minutes? z stay with us. we will have the latest information on the shooting right here on fox 45. we will be covering the story all morning long at top and bottom of each hour. maryland's gubernatorial election is one year aaand a new poll shows how voters feel about

a possible rematch between o'malley ander lick. the poll by the research group shows 39% of voters say they want governor o'malley re-elected. 4 #% want someone new to win. o'malley leader lick 47 to 40 %. er lick plans to have his own pole in just few weeks. what do you think about all of this? who would you vote for in a rematch between o'malley and ehrlich. we will open up our phone lines in a little bit. can you also good to fox 45 or sound off through facebook or send us a tweet. you can send answers to 45203 and enter fox 45a for erhich or fox 45b if you throw your support behind governor o'malley. what do you do with all these old punkins? chuck them. annual world championship hunkin chunkin contest kicks off today.

we will have a preview for new just a little bit. you will want to say with us. they are trying to shoot these punkins up to a mile away. we will take you there in just a little bit. we might take through right now. looks like we have a live look there. this is in delaware. good morning. how are you? >> hey, good morning. if i was any better, i couldn't stand it. >> so tell you, what are you out there doing today? this takes months of preparation. now you're here. what do you do with these punkins? >> we will try to throw them just as far as we k. we have machines here to look looking to throw a ten-pound pumpkin almost a mile. >> you are one of the people competing here today? >> that is true. i'm also a member of the association, but i'm a member of the bone team, which is a machine. >> now there are different categories. there are cat pulls and mechanism you use to send the pumpkins off into the horizon. tell bus that. >> we have data molt catapults,

we have what a lot of people like to see these days and we also have the, like i said, he is not trip cal class. >> we have come to this in years past and watch you guys take part in this. there is one that break. what's the trick there? is there some kind of secret? >> no. everybody tries to put as much power as they can behind the pumpkin to get as much distance as they k. looking down the field i see we have a strong head wind so it will be tough for them to set records today. >> right and there's snow there where you guys are. >> well, we have liquid snow right now. we had about eight inches of rain the past couple of weeks so it is drying out, not very happenedly. we will have a great day. >> maybe that will help. if the pumpkins are frozen, maybe it'll help push them out. >> we will take every advantage we can get. >> we will check back and see if can you send them a while away. >> we ceil what we can do. >> a classic makes its way l.a.

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at the university. we have students who are sophomores. soon youories, seniors across the whole spectrum and they will perform a little bit after scene for us? >> let's go ahead and take a look at that scene right now, steve. >> okay, thanks. ♪ . ♪ ♪ ♪ >> and at center for the arts main stage theater, it is tonight and tomorrow. shows are at 8:00 p.m. for more information check out about our website, fox baltimore.com. >> we are looking for sunshine and well find it today and the rest of the weekend. something like. that sky watch radar -- i can't

pull that off for too long. ac radar indicating dry scan right now. it'll be dry all weekend, looking good. couple of light showers pushing through last night. generally dry weather will be with us for the foreseeable future so looking g. up north we are seeing snow showers, or we d. up in new york state. still the northern part of new york state seeing showers there. towards watertown maybe. but otherwise we are looking at dry conditions because of high pressure sitting over us all weekend and high pressure ahead of it though with cool air for today and look for temperatures not to climb up much high are than a°. back west on the west side of that high pressure as it moves east. coming it warmer temperatures. so tomorrow, moderating temperatures. it is well to the north and that allows for warm up. and you won't see a whole lot on this future scan model. it'll show clearing skies and next chance of rain probably not getting here until maybe midweek next week and if we see anything

midweek next week, it'll be light. 41° in baltimore. same for salisbury. 42 in washington, d.c. 37 in hagerstown. dropping a couple degrees in oakland. going the wrong direction there oakland. 28° there. but temperatures will rebound a little bit. winds picking up today and high pressure building in and we will get that pressure grade in. 51° with a high of 15 to it 5 mile-an-hour winds makes it feel chilly. central part of the state, 51° with sunshine and northwest winds at 10 to 20. chillier afternoon with winds sticking up. for western part of maryland, maybe not getting out of 40's. 41° for the high. winds at 10 to 15 miles an hour. 32° for evernight low. freezing mark then. northwest winds at 5 to 10 miles an hour. cold night and freeze work for all counties bordering the chesapeake bay and southern part of the eastern shore. as we move through today, again a little bit of warm up.

not much look for temperatures to climb to about 48° by the noon hour. with plenty of sunshine though. clear skies tonight. 45° then. at 6:00. high of 51 around 1:00 this afternoon. 58° is your moderation of temperatures and better still for sunday. 65° and still mainly clear skies. we should enjoy it really nice sunday. monday, 66°. probably won't want to head back it work but a really nice day. 66° on tuesday with partly cloudy skies. temperatures back off to near to normal temperatures this time of year. fox 45 skywatch weather is now at your fingertips. radar is available at fox 45.com. can you use the powerful doppler radar to track storms and see exactly when rain or snow will be over your house. good to fox baltimore.com and click on iradar. here is candace dold with another look at your traffic.

>> thank you, steve. we are checking your friday morning commute. at 51 miles an hour, traveling in the northeast corner, 62 traveling on 95 through baltimore city. those lines don't look too bad. the problem is we have an accident in an anne arundel el county. the right lane and southbound boulevard is diverted on to westbound route 100. you will want to stay left to pass by that activity there. good through the area right now. we can see the scene at 695 and that's very light activity. we will take that on southbound lanes and northbound up toward the beltway. the beltway that west side is moving through coatianville. can you see the cars in yellow and cars in the red. let's look that scene at liberty road and you will see why it is in the road there it is. and just moderate condition on the inner loop direction towards 795. we are packing in those cars

from pikesville heading up towards jfx. so far no incidents to report. on 83 disabled vehicle on the southbound lanes. near perdonia road. and 83 just near 695 is just getting busy there but no delays to talk about. there's a lock at your morning travel. megan back over to you. >> thank you, candace. still ahead a gunman killing 13 people in fort hood, texas. a live report from the military base coming up. he knows baseball but what about the gridiron? brooks robinson gives it a good in this week's pig skin pro guys remember,

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>> i don't know the score but i think the ravens over bangles. redskins over falcons. >> redskins have been stinking it up. >> bad. >> and with dallas and atlanta quarterback last year. i will go with the atlanta. >> all right. anybody who can make it into a hall of fame is smart guy. so i will go with atlanta just like you. dallas cowboys and philadelphia eagles. this is going to be a good game i think. >> that right. go ahead. >> even those phillies at home. i think i'm going to with the cowboys. i think they are playing good ball. they don't have t.o. no problems, no distractions. i'm going with the cowboys. >> i can't root against the cowboys. my brother is in dallas. he played on university of the arkansas. he was five years younger, but his roommate was jerry jones. i cannot bet -- i'm going to pick cowboys too. >> greatness runs in the family. friends included. >> houston texans at

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>> it was an election week that brought change. republicans captured big wins in virginia and in new jersey. some say the democratic losses of the two governorships is a blow to the obama administration. chris wallis, host of fox news, weighs. in how are you, chris? >> i'm doing well. how are you, megan? >> i'm doing well. do you think this is a referendum to the obama administration. >> no, i think with that would be overstating. it when you vote for a governor

and say you are voting for the governor, not sending a message about the president, there are were enough issues in new jersey and virginia that would lead people to vote for the republican without making any comment on obama. having said that the fact that independent who won strongly for obama last year went for republicanes this year, the fact that so-called obama coalition, young people, and african-americans didn't turn out to vote at all, those are troubling. i think a lot of moderate democrats, for instance just for john mccain last year, may not be quite so sure about vauntage to follow the obama agenda. that could have immediate ram if ications in turns of healthcare reform. >> right. as we head into that 2010 election here coming up, do you think some of those democrats seeking reelection will kind of try and stay away from obama and his plans and go an independent path? >> well, look a year is a long time. it is an eternity in politics. but who's to say. i think in the short term they

probably got a wake up call and that is that being supported by -- president obama campaign bed a half dozen times in new jersey. the democratic there his partner, went down to defeat. so following president obama isn't necessarily going get you reelected. he seems to have pretty sure coat tails. >> i want to ask you, depend on ought on the tragedy at fort hood yet, we are trying to learn know more about the shooter. anything you have learned motive wise. >> no. there does seem to be someone a clear about it. that he posed our u.s. foreign policy. there are reports, i don't know if they are cannot firmed yet that posted on radical web sites, i think one of the big questions a in the investigation obviously he is responsible for what he d. one of the questions is this guy seemed to have made no bones about the fact he opposed u.s. poll system didn't want to go be deployed. and i think people will be wondering, to the system fail in not getting him help or locking him away before this whole

terrible thing went down. >> we will be learning more in coming minutes, coming hours, coming days. before we get you go, we have one more question for you. what is coming up on the show sunday? >> well, we will have the new governor elect of virginia. a lot of people think he has the blueprint for how republicans regain power in 2020, then well talk with a kim of top members of congress about how they see the elections playing out and effect on healthcare reform and whole obama agenda. >> chris wall us, thank you so much, we will be watching. can - ( music playing ) - now's the time to invest.

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and, of course, you can never go wrong with futures. >> good morning and welcome back to fox 45 morning news on this friday morning. i'm megan gilliland. steve is here to tell us how our day and weekend will be shaping up. how are you no. >> good. lots of sunshine coming your way, megan and should be a cool day today but it'll warm up as we get into the weekend. dry conditions right now, at the bus stop. clear skies, 38° for starting temperatures. temperatures up to 48 by noon and 45 at 6:00 p.m. generally clear skies. cool front, 37 in haguerstown and we are looking for a high of 50 today. right now, candace is here with your traffic edge. >> i promise you, she really is. >> thank you, steve. we are talking about an accident on martin boulevard this morning. an accident involving a bus in fact. it is right at riverton road.

that is causing a bit after delay through the area. now thankfully no lane or road closures to talk about. as for the 5, right at right mark boulevard we can tell what you it looks like and so far no delays. talk about northbound or southbound lanes. that's a look at your morning travels. megan back to you. >> we are continuing to follow a developing story this morning. another person dies evernight after being injured in the shooting rampage at fort hood in texas. the death toll now at 13. 30 wounded. the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the u.s. we are taking you live to for the hood where officials are giving an update on the situation. we will listen in right now. >> we had combat, emergency department personnel and surgeons here at darnall army

medical center. we were able to rapidly triage and treat and transfer as necessary soldiers who were injured yesterday in the attack. approximately half of those who are hospitalized required surgery. and all are stable today. our focus today is do going to be on those soldiers continuing to require medical care from admitted patients. they are both in our hospital here at darnall as well as three other community hospitals in the area. we also will focus on the behavioral health needs of our soldiers and family members and other folks in the community. if we have more than 200 behavioral health providers here on fort hood. will be supplemented by the express control units by first medical brigade for stress control unit. we will have the health teams that will also be augmented by

staff from brooke army medical center and sun regional medical command and we have behavioral health teams in the community through value options and partners with the brethren try care regional in the south. with support as necessary. we have a surge of professional healthcare providers with the ability to reach out to anyone who needs it, with further assessment as we identify what we need down the road. >> the second area we will focus on is security of the installation much the post is no longer locked down. approximately 9:00 p.m. last night, we opened the gate to allow the soldiers off and begin normal operations. however we are operating into heightened levels of security

and will continue to do so until we bring it back to normal operations. we are fully confident in this security of the installation. and remain so. third, we continue to focus on casualty assistance. efforts. this includes notification of family members and grief counseling. the notification process is under way and we ask that all fully support and respect the privacy of families that have been affected by this tragedy. lastly, i again with like to praise the efforts of our first responders and all of the agencies for the support of soldiers and families in this critical time. >> that was a live update oned's shooting in fort hood, texas. joel smith has been following fg this for us all morning. joel, how are you some. >> oh fine. this is hasson we are talking about. 39-year-old major in the army

who apparently was set to be deployed to iraq or afghanistan within the next coming weeks. that is the major problems that a lot of his friend and family are saying that he had potentially a motive for all of this. by the end of the shalings, 13 dead, 3 injured and so you just heard from that news conference that 15 of those people had to require surgery. everyone is in stable condition now. initially he he was set -- the shooter was said to have died during the shoot out in eventually was not the case and they found out it was actually him. this is almost like a small town. 70,000 people here. yesterday, what a chaotic scene this must have been. people are back to their homes and we just heard joel, they are saying the lock down has been removed and it is -- this is usual now. >> a horrible thing. one ever their own. you are getting toward deploy. all of the people that died and all of the people that were shot were getting toward deploy. not at home, that the safe spot and some are saying they were

unprepared it deal with something like this. it was very difficult for them to be ready for something from the inside coming in and hurting them actually. friend and family say he was upset about being scheduled to deploy soon. he did not agree with the u.s. presence in iraq and afghanistan. hasan is accused of opening fire around 1:30 local time in texas. he used two guns, one a semiautomatic. 13 people killed, 30 more wounded. hasan has strong ties to our region. he grandated from virginia tech. he went to school in bees thisda. >> what scarce me about it is that he could have snap end killed people in this building. all these kids and people around here and everything, that's what kind of scares me. >> malcom fraser sayses with a quiet guy. we have new video in this

morning. this is apparently yesterday morning. hatsian at an air austin area 7-eleven, wearing traditional arab garb. he was upset about being deployed because he might have to kill other muslims. we have learned that early this morning agents raided hasan's apartment near fortitude try to get closer to a possible motive. we will have more on the news conference you just saw at 8:00. joel smith, fox 45 morning. >> you news. >> stay with us. fox 45 muse for the latest information on the shooting including extended coverage of that press conference much we just brought to you live a few moments ag. we will be covering this story all morning long at the top and bottom of the hour. maryland's gub in dora election is one year aaway. a there is a possible rematch between governor owe mallee and ehrlich. 37% say this he want o'malley.

48 percent e say they want someone new. ehrlich plans to commission his own public opinion poll in a few weeks. we want to foe what you think. who would you vote for? it is our question of the day. can you call us, our phone number is 410-481-4545. can you also go to fox baltimore upon the com or sound off through facebook. even text us your answer to 4053 and just enter fox 45a. if you would both prefer governor ehrlick. b if you would throw s your support behind o'malley. halloween has come and gone so what do you do with the pumpkins? chunk them. we are joined live with a preview of that, good morning, frank. how are you? >> great. great. we are having a great time here in the field. >> frank, you and i were talking

about it. it draws thousands of people every year. i will let you tell these people who you will be doing today. >> basically we've got many types of contraptions that have been built with the sole purpose in mind of blowing an 8 to 10-point pumpkin almost a mile. >> how far are these people trying to throw these pumpkins? >> everyone is looking to break what we call the mythical mile. we have thrown 10-pound punkins up to 4,484 feet. >> has anyone done the whole mile? >> not yet. but this might be the year. >> which contraptions send the pumpkin the furtherest in catapult or others out there? actually the air cannons. they are basically a gun type weapon that uses compressed air to throw the pumpkin down a barrel then launch down, like i said, the longest distance. >> so fun. how many chances do these people have to come out. if your pumpkin busts the first time, do have you another shot or are you done?

>> for the competition, each team gets three competitive shots over the weekend. they shoot one each day it is measured. reuse say it must lead, must leave the machine in tact f. it breaks or hits the ground, which naturally it'll, that's all right. that's what we measure it to. the end of the machine or out to the -- >> frank it looks like such a good time. we want to check back with you in just a little bit and of course the event kicks off today. stay with us. we will check back in and see more of the pumpkin chunkin in a few minutes. >> okay. we'll be right back. >> thank you, frank. instructions on how to whip up hot p [ thunder rumbling ]

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that all we have to deal with is cool conditions today and also those winds picking up. right few though the winds at 5 miles an hour out of west. 41° for current temperature. and in the harbor reporting partly cloudy skies. we will see plenty of sunshine through the day. 30.30 and rising on the barometer. indication of high pressure building. in 28 is the dew point. pretty dry and we take a look ates this temperatures you will see. 41° still in baltimore not much of a change from earlier this morning. 42 in d.c. 37 in hagerstown. and oakland dropping a couple° down from 28 to 30 earlier and temperatures will rebound some as we get sunshine and dry conditions on our hd radar and high pressure will bring in that cool air from the north on the east side of that high and high will continue to move east. as it does we get the return flow and get clockwise flow around it from the south. that warms us up a bit as we get towards the weekend. keep our eye on tropical depression idea i'd ida, over

honduras. going over freddy garcia florida and bears watching. generally across country not much going on. as we look at the forecast today. the eastern shore is about 51°. 15 to 25-mile an our wind later though. the state getting up to 51 with 10 to 20 mile-an-hour wind. plenty of sunshine and back west plenty of sun. temperatures there cooler. 49° for high with 10 to 15 15 mile-an-hour wind. tonight, 32°. down to the freezing mark. we have a freeze warning set for tonight into tomorrow morning. all of the counties on the west side of the chesapeake bay and eastern shores. baltimore county included in that and so it will get rather cold and maybe could be a killing frost. any plants out there that have not been brought in yet should be. 58° on saturday. with more sunshine again and so we moderate temperatures some. 65 sunday.

real nice then. 66 monday and tuesday with mix of sun and clouds and partly cloudy wednesday and thursday. 5 of for high temperatures. now we will see what is happening on the highwayes with candace dold. >> thank you, steve. we are tracking think f for you. look at the numbers. 22 miles an hour. 29 near liberty road and 32 on the jsx. for 95 and northeast corner looking at 30 miles per hour. we do need to talk about several in that area. it is in fact an accident that involves a ius. it is on martin boulevard. right at river top road. now there is an accident at the same location. so two accidents there. it is just on the other side of the road. so just be aware it is a busy drive through that area. we will continue to keep you up-to-date as more information gets into our newsroom. i-95 through baltimore county. heavier moving from 695 exit towards the city and in fact we can show you the radar at fort

mchenry tunnel. here it is and you can see not too much to complain about there. northbound and southbound lanes. we will take that for a friday morning. heading from 395 down toward the beltway and in fact the beltway is a smooth ride there traveling down towards that 93 corridor. on 97, no complaints. we have an accident on route 100. a lot of crews on the scene there and in fact the right lane is diverted on to westbound route 100 so stay left by that activity. that is a look at your morning travels. megan back over to you. >> candace thank you. still ahead a new poll shows some support for gubinatorial run by former governor robert you arerrli ch.it is our questi. phone lines are open right now.

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plus $150 back. >> a new poll shows plenty of maryland voters wouldn't mind having robert ehrlich back in the governor's mansion. you are lick plans to have his own poll in a few woke. that brings touts question of the day. who would you vote for in a rematch between governor o'malley and former governor ehrlich. our phone lines are open right now. call us at 410-481-4545. right now steve from windsor mill is on the phone. good morning, steve. how are you? >> good morning, i'm okay. >> who would you vote for? >> definitely governor ehrlich. i started in state government and i finished under shafer. it is not about republican or democrat any more. it is about someone who is honest and also is going to look

out for the state of maryland and its citizens. >> you are saying would you vote for governor ehrlich. do you think he would win? >> yes. i think that -- i know would he do a better job. >> all right. thank you so much. we now have george from gwenn oaks on the phone. good morning, george, how are you? >> i'm doing fine. >> what do you think? who would you vote for? >> ehrlich. >> you would, why is that? >> i think he has the best interest of people at heart. i don't think o'malley quite seems to figure out how to run this state. things have just gone down. when bob ehrlich was here, he had us going in the right direction. i would vote for him and would he win. no doubt about it. >> that's my next question if you thought he would win or not. thanks for your call. jim is now on the phone. good morning jim. >> yes, good morning, good morning. >> what do you think? >> i think bob ehrlich. his family of seven would vote overwhelmingly for bob ehrlich and yes, i do think he would win. >> i will ask you jim, why? why would you put your support

behind him? >> i support bob ehrlich because i'm totally dissatisfied with the o'malley administration. >> why is that? >> why is that? >> yeah. >> i was never pleased with his handling of the bg and e. i have not been pleased with his decisions of our taxes. so therefore, i just offhand i can't remember that many except that i'm totally, totally, totally dissatisfied with mr. o'malley. >> jim thank you so much. we have been getting a number of tweetes this morning as we. we will good to our twitter page and see what people there have to say. one woman says in rematch i would vote for the perp i did the last time around, bob ehrlich. he was a good governor. the person went on to say, been an o'malley supporters since he ran for mayor of baltimore and i'm still a supporter. it goes both ways. when we total all tweets an text

and responses, majority says 52% are going with bob ehrlich. so interesting to see what will pan out in days to come. thank you all for your calls and text and tweets. for everything this morning. later on fox 45 morning news, a young girl dying of cancer leaves notes behind for her parents. hear about her amazing story and how it is turned into a book. >> melt this on your burn are side of the grill or right on the grill. >> next, an appetizer that will make your mouth and your eyes water. get this week's clever cleave

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pumpkin. we are live at world championship pumpkin chunkin all morning. >> good morning. welcome to fox 45 morning news. today is friday. november 6. i'm megan gilliland. patrice has the morning off but steve fertig is here to let us know how our weekend will shape up. maybe for the first time no, rain. >> looks like dry weather for the next several days, megan. here is how we start on the radar. an whole lot on there at all. in fact, nothing, other than a few thin clouds west. generally clear skies. 43°. washington, d.c. the same. 40° in hagerstown. 48 # in oakland. today we should top out in 51°. west winds at 10 to 20 miles an

hour. sunshine and more sunshine with warmer temperatures tomorrow through tuesday. in chance of rain midweek next week. so enjoy the dry conditions. here is a look at the roadways with a look at our traffic. >> thank you, steven. good morning. if you are out hitting the roadways, we have an accident to talk about in baltimore county. a crash involving a bus and people were inebrieties we are just getting all of the information into our newsroom and we will relay it over to you as soon as we get more. as for now it is on martin boulevard at riverton road. to make matters worse, now there is a second accident at the same location. so a lot of activity there. you will want to avoid the area if you can. on 95 showing you what it looks like, here it is, and actually an bad ride for friday morning. so we will take that. then there is travel times right now on the beltway traveling from 9 the 5 down towards 83. it is running slow there. a 17-minute ride, 35 is average speed.

54 miles per hour. southbound 95 from that toll toward the beltway. 8-minute clip and 9-minute ride on southbound. from the tunnel towards the 95 exit so 55 is the average speed there. megan back over to you. >> we are continuing to follow a developing story this morning. a 13th person dies overnight and the fort hood texas shooting, 30 remain injured. the shooting rampage started at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. it is the worst mass shooting ever at a military base here in the united states. military officials believe a major on the bay, hasan, is the shooter. hasan is not dead as previously reported. >> he is currently in custody. and in stable condition. i say again, the shooter is not dead but in custody and in stable condition. >> there is two going to be a lot of focus to maybe people he spoke to. why action wasn't taken, i don't

know for a second there will be a lot of red flags floating around about this guy. >> meanwhile, we are learning more about the man suspected in shooting rampage. at silver spring moss, the army psychiatrist did not seem like an extremist. caan knew hasan for more than ten years and he was quiet and reserved. caan said hasson was actively looking for a wife through the mosque. hasan listed himself as palestinian even though he was born here in the united states. hasan does have ties to our ar area, here with the latest on what san's interest in our area, hi, joel. >> he was born in virginia, graduated from virginia tech and served six years at walter reed hospital in bethesda. we just learned from a training doctor at walter reed medical center, he said hasan had

difficulties at an intern at walter reed and required counseling there as well. he said hasan had problems with patient but would not go into detail. he was opening fire on the area patients get medical screenings. he had two semiautomatics. when he was down 13 people were dead and 30 injured. hasan himself was said to be killed with return gunfire but now we know he was just wounded. has san's family said he is a good american and they were all shot shocked with this, yet he also a problem with the military in the past. >> he was dealing with harassment about some of his military colleagues. and he hired a military attorney to try tote got issue resolved. he was trying everything to get done fair and reasonable and get

out of the situation. so i'm really shocked. >> this is new video in this morning from a convenience store. yesterday morning is what this is from. he is wearing traditional arab garb. the cashier says hasan was worried about his upcoming deployment and was talking about how upset he was to potentially fight mellow muslims in afghanistan and iraq. a witness now describing the scene as shooting was going on. he said that hasan was talking very calmly, was shooting calmly and said al why abar as he was shooting. that's new information in right now. otherwise they are trying to find more motives. they have raided his apartment near fort hood. some things to still be figured out. megan? >> we are learning more about the person hasson s. we heard he was quiet. we heard he is reserved. what are former neighbors saying about him? >> he worke worked there while g in bethesda hospital. he was quiet and polite but one

man we talked to said he is relieved that hasan didn't just snap and maybe do this where they lived in silver spring. megan? >> joelle, thank you. we will check in with you in a little bit. >> we will have the latest information on the shooting here on fox 45. we will bring you more on this story at the bottom of the hour. >> hartford county is holding its first h1n1 clinic today. pregnant women and kids ages six months to 18 years old, can get the fluly vaccine. at the stadium in aberdeen. good enit is today from 10:00 a.m. until 3 this afternoon. >> halloween has come and gone, so what do you do with all of these pumpkins still left on your porches? you chunk them. annual world championship pumpkin chunkin contest kicks off today and scott whitaker joins us live with preview. scott, how are you? >> i'm good. >> so are you taking part in the pumpkin chungin contest? >> yes, we are.

>> you are? >> what contraption are you using today? >> an air cannon and -- >> [inaudible] >> okay. how long did it take to you develop your air cannon? >> the captain of the game has been doing it suns he was about ten years old. this is the third machine he has built. and is currently the world record holder. we took first place last year oh, my goodness. you are the reigning champs. tell me how far did your punkins shoot last year. >> 4,483 feet. >> and the goal this year? >> well, we would like to date what we did last year but we are shooting for 5,000 feet. >> you are the give everybody wants it beat here today. there is going to be lots of people gunning for you. do you have any new strategies as you head into the competition today? >> we did pretty good last year, right toward the end of the chunk. and with just a little bit more

fine tuning this year and i think we have it dialed in. i don't think today will be the day with the wind. probably a saturday and sunday shoot for us. >> you set said you would let us see a little. are you going to shoot a pumpkin out for us right now? >> yes, we are. >> you are. let's see. it [honking] >> that pumpkin is still in the air as we speak right now. >> oh, my goodness. what was that steam coming out the top? >> that's, with the air compresser after it pumps up it generates a little bit of heat and it is pretty chilly out right now. >> you know what you are doing out there. thank you so much for sharing with us today. we will be anxious to see how you guys did today. good luck. >> thank you. >> thousands of people good out to watch that too. it as lot of fun. check it out. cominging up a heart breaking story after 6-year-old child who lost her life to brain cancer.

>> maybe we would have hugged her a little more tightly. maybe we would have written notes to her as well. >> gifts she left behind for her parents that they keep finding. >> and where art thou romeo? he is in our area. we give you a preview up next.

> they are two young lovers with spouting families an untimely deaths. romeo and juliet is one of shakespeare's most famous plays. steve is live with details in this morning's hometown hot spot. good morning, steve. >> good morning megan. >> we have got a taste of a lot of what your show is about. there was sword fighting earlier. tell us about what makes your play so special. >> well, the talented actors in it and we have also live music being improvised by music students from our music department. there are a lot of elements really unique to this production. >> this is a a staff of very that willn 'ted pathors from the university. >> they are all undergraduate. >> you will perform a little for us right now? >> yes. we have a little bit of the famous balcony scene between room why and july yet. >> wonderful.

>> come hither. tell me and wherefore, the orchard walls are high and this place just considering who thou art. >> the certainer limits cannot hold my love and love can do -- [inaudible] >> romeo and juliet is at the university center for the arts main stage theater tonight and tomorrow. show start at 8:00 p.m. log on to our website for more information at foxbaltimore.com/morning. >> weather not very dramatic. things will be calm all week. it'll be very nice. lots of sunshine. take a lock at sky watch hd radar and you won't find a whole lot out there. level 2 radar indicating a nice dry scan. as we look at a composite image a little bit of light snow falling in that area. that's the only place we are seeing activity. because high pressure is building in and making for a

very nice weekend. take a look. high pressure again bringing us cool air on the east side. we are cool for one more day. temperatures just near 50° today. that northerly flow and also bringing in the cool air. dry conditions though, and back to the west on the west side of that high pressure we get a return flow and that will bring in warmer temperatures which trend toward the warmer side tomorrow but get into 60's by sunday and beginning of the next work week as high pressure slides further east. >> high pressure here but low pressure moving up north and east and strong winds we see later on in the afternoon. scan looking uneventful and something you don't mind hearing as again dry conditions persist through the weekend. 43° right now in baltimore. 43 in d.c. yay, we have climbed a couple°. 43 salisbury. i don't mean yay as in what shakespeareo say, yay, 43° we are happy about it. 30° in oakland. and temperatures are going to be

on the cool side, one more day. and eastern shore, with lots of sun, northwest winds 15 to 25 miles an hour. it does get windy in the afternoon. central part of the state. 51°. northwest winds 10 to 20 miles an hour. lots of sunshine here and little bit cooler west up to 49° for a high on this friday for the western part of maryland. 10 to 15 mile-an-hour winds. tonight, 32°. that the number we dent maybe like seeing. that some of you might. maybe some of you want to see snow around here but i'm getting down from the anchor desk as we see that clearly freeze warning in place tonight. ier night period, we will have a chance of some freezing conditions for the west side of chesapeake bay. right along the counties from harper county to baltimore county down to southern part of the chesapeake bay and southern part of the eastern shore at all in this freeze warning tonight and tomorrow. so we haven't add killing frost that does all that damage to the plant life out there until maybe

tonight into tomorrow for some eastern counties. we have had that for western counties. 58° for high temperature tomorrow and look for plenty of sunshine. 55° with mostly clear skies sunday. shaping up nicely then. 66 monday. 66 on tuesday with partly cloudy skies. veteran's day, nice day partly cloud aye. little cooler, 57. 56 and partly cloudy on your thursday. hey, ditell you, fox 45 skywatch weather is at your fingertips. you can use fox 45's doppler radar to track incoming storms much the interactive tool shows exactly when rain or snow will be over your house. go to fo foxbaltimore.com and ck on radar. >> thank you, steve. we are talking about numbers of a different kind out there on many of the land lines down pretty far. 38 miles her hour on the lib arty road. much better ride on 95. somebody is actually sitting

there, 67 miles per hour as they move over. it is flowing freely as least. we need to talk about ann anne arundel el county. right at gamble road involving an overturned suv rescue operation taking place ate now and medevac is requested. so this is commanding a lot of attention through the area. no complaints on route 32 though. little bit further up, there is also a crash in pasadena. that is right at route 100. the rightfully southbound side is divested to strenuity 100. it guess by the left to get by that scene there. on 97 nothing to complain about and that the same deal traveling on 295 and 95 through the city and we can show you this shot at tunnel. here it is. you can see it as pretty easy drive there on southbound lanes. for friday morning, that is good news for us. heading on 95 moving through baltimore county and no major delays to talk about there. we have an accident in fact two on martin boulevard.

they are right at riverton road. one of them is involving a bus and there were occupant on that bus. so we will continue to keep you up-to-date on this one as soon as we get more information. that a look at your morning travel, megan, back over to you. >> thank you, candace. having a tough week, you need a break, now can you win one courtesy of. if's hit house. >> our house mental break contest. good to foxbaltimore.com and click on contest. send us your money-saving tips and you could breeze through holiday season without having to worry about how you will pay for all of the holiday gifts. our grand prize winner will receive a $500 american express gift card. now, our final tip today comes from shannon walters of boston. she sent her e-mail and her money-saving tips says she started evaluating on-line purchases, anything i want i will wait at least three week it by and reevaluate the purchase and see if i still really want. it most of the time i don't. that works, i've done that before too. >> shannon is a winner today.

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pagraph. >> holiday shopping will be here before yes foe it and it is never too early it start. can you give back at the same time. alicia is here from village learning place to tell us a little bit more with b this. good morning lisa. >> good morning. >> how are you? >> very good. >> this is an awesome idea. tell us how you started this, up and running. >> welt we have a monthly cultural series called second wednesday. so we have a host of different event that happen every second wednesday from guest lecture, perform uns, speakers, and we decided november was the holidays coming, that we would try to feature some of our local artist. >> so a lot of local artist will be coming together. it is free for them to set up as a vendor and people can come and buy some things and tell me you know how this work out for some of the other people out there in need.

>> sure. we have close to 25 vendors that will be in the library space and our educational space in the base many. and we have -- >> beautiful things. >> selling beautiful things. we have kind of all of the media you would want. we have pottery, we have knitted. we have glass. we have jewelry. there is wood working. and just lots of beautiful gifts and it is the perfect time to really support local artists buy something special unique gift for the holidays. >> and what is so neat about this, let's say i come in and buy this right here, the proceeds of this, a portion of it will good to help somebody out? >> yes. >> 20% that night all goes back to support the village running place, the library, our educational programs that we offer. >> very good and have you had success in the past with this? >> yes. >> it is amazing the response from the community that we've gotten, we have add 200 people in two-hour span of time come come through and you know, it

raises money for a great cause. >> and there are lots of options. you know you were telling us about this but all of these handmade hand done and all local? >> yes. >> you are is you pouredding people of baltimore as well? >> yes. >> exactly. >> sustain built. >> what is the goal you are trying to raise this year? >> we don't actually have a goal. it is all about i guess the second intangible is getting people into the library about educational programs that we offer. we don't actually set a final goal. it is all about the numbers that come and wholeness about the village learning place. >> we hope it goes well for you guys this year. thank you so much for bringing some of this and a taste of what we can see if we come out. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you, lisa, for more information log on to foxbaltimore.com/morning. coming up, got more left over halloween candy than you could ever bear it eat? the great cause you can donate it to. >> what scares me about it, is

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good morning and welcome balk to fox 45 morning news. i'm megan gilliland. we have a lot to good too including a pumpkin chunkin contest. we will get to that in a minute but first we will get to steve fertig to see what our weekend will look like. >> first, it'll be sunny. >> cool. >> then warm up and more on sunday. >> it was cold this morning. >> definitely cold. and cold one tonight. if you are heading out it to,

into dress warmly. it will get near the freezing mark. take look at temperatures, you will see we are at 43° in baltimore. same for dc and p 4 in salisbury. 40° in hag hagerstown. we can take that. i didn't know about oakland though. i don't know if we can take. that there will be sunshine throughout the day with high pressure over us. snow showers up in new york state dissipating into the high pressure now as well. 48° by noon and 45 as 6:00 p.m. topping out at around 51° for the high, right around 1:00 this afternoon. northwest winds pick up and 20 miles per hour and that will make you feel chilly and to give you a heads up too. 32° with tonight's evernight low. doesn't that sound freezing? in fact it is. we are on the roadways with candace here with your traffic edge. >> thank you, steven. in fact it is going to sound like a bit after hectic rideout

there. all because of an accident on ann anne arundel el county there. is an overturned suv and there is a rescue operationunderware now and a medevac has been requested. a lot of attention there. will want to stake with route 3 # as a second. here it is, again, very light activity in both directions. adds for your travel times on the rest of the roadways, 795 towards 95 it is still a slow go. 20 minutes, 31 is the average speed. the 95 and 895 doing much better from beltway towards 32. 10-minute ride, 62 miles per hour and 55 miles per hour and 9-minute clip from harbor tunnel toward the 95 exit. that's a look at your morning travels. megan, back over to you. >> we are continuing to follow a developing story this morning. another person dies overnight

after being injured in the shooting rampage at fort hood in texas. it is the worst mass shooting ever at a military base here in the united states. the death toll count now stands at 13. with 30 wounded. police say the suspected shooter major nidal hasson opened fire around 1:30 yesterday afternoon. >> difficult enough when we lose these brave americans in battles overseas. it is horrifying that they should come under fire at an army base on american soil. >> meanwhile, we are learning more about the man suspected in the shooting rampage. a man at the silver spring mosque his son attended set hasan did not seem to be an extremely. he knew him for ten years an he was a quiet an reserved man. caan said he knew hasan was actively looking for a wife at the mosque there.

hasan listed himself as a palestinian even though he was born here in united states. this morning major hasan is not dead as originally thought. he is wounded but it in stable condition and custody. as turned out hasan has ties here to our area. joel smith is here with more information. >> we have an eyewitness to tell you about. this witness says as hasian was opening fire and as he did so he yelled arabic for god is great. investigators are still trying to find a motive for all of this. friends and family of major hasan are saying he was upset about scheduled deployment in coming weeks. and did not agree with the u.s. presence in iraq and afghanistan. hasan is accused of opening fire at the soldier readiness center on base. that's what it is called. where soldiers get ready for the medical screening before and after deployment. he is said to have used two hand guns in the attack. one a semiautomatic. ehaven'tly 13 people doctor killed and 30 wounded. he was set to have not been killed by gunfire at first but

now we node he was just wounded much he has strong ties to our region. born in virginia graduating from virginia tech and serving six years at walter reed hospital in bethesda. while there he lives in silver spring and he add chance it talk to one of his former neighbors. >> what really scares me about is that he could have snapped and killed people in this building. all these kids and everything. that's what kind of scares me. >> this video is also new this morning. just n hasan allegedly near an austin area 7-eleven. he was wearing traditional garb. we don't know if he did that everyday or if this was a special occasion. officials say hasan had come to their attention about six months ago because of internet postings discan youing bombs an other threats.

of course hasan him sex is still alive and will be -- of course, anna himself is still alive and will be questioned. >> when ghouls, ghosts an goblins line the streets knocking on doors for dentist the scary part is happening now. when the young patient are digging into their candy collects and that's where the casper candy program comes in handy. dr. craig a dentist is here, and explains this. good morning. >> good morning z thanks for coming. you brought candy and everyone here likes you now. >> yeah. >> explain the casper candy and explain what this is. >> a program where kids, parents bring back candy not eaten. unused that will buy back for a dollar per pound, repackage and send to some of the troops overseas to share support. >> so two-fold. you are getting rid of candy then servicemen can have a sweet treat as well. >> healthy community and showing support for men and women overseas.

>> what made you come up with this idea. >> well i long to an organization an last year found about the program. in 2005 i add patient, norm anderson, who passed away. killed in iraq. and it just made good sense to honor the men and women overseas and at the same time, just promote healthy community. >> oh, my goodness. yes, at holidays we think of them. sometimes at halloween they often get forgot when it comes to candy and trick-or-treating. >> absolutely. >> so you say if i bring if say a pound of this county, that's a dollar s. that how it works? >> yes. yes. kids will be able to use this scale. use this hand scale. >> okay. >> yeah. and they can hang their bag on to it. and see how much they got. >> this could be hard because mom and dad may be saying put the candy in the bag and kid could be pulling it back trying to keep it more. >> that's why we offer a dollar per pound. >> that's makes it more worth it. this is not just a good treat

but now pocketing these here for later. >> right. >> great mission, thank you so much. intergrown if they want to come and do this, they can come to your office or where some. >> they can come to our office, abs lick up in new york. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. >> can you get casper county at harper dental health office on york road. the prom good is happening tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. if you want to find out more about t where to good and all that stuff log on to our website at foxbaltimore.com/morning. still ahead, halloween is over, so what do you do with your old jack lantern? you chuck it as far as it can go. this is what you will see in a bit. >> we are giving away free copies of usage dawn of the

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>> we are continuing it follow breaking news this morning. a doctor is giving an update as we speak out of fort hood texas on the latest condition of victims and suspected shooter of the fort hood shooting. let's listen in right now. >> that's really all of the information we got. we were more information in getting the individual cared for than interviewing him, obviously. >> [inaudible] >> >> it's possible. there are two or three patients that could require additional surgery today. it is too early to know. >> you mentioned earlier there were some -- [inaudible] >> it is too early to know those details. >> the other surgeries that could be happening today are those of -- [inaudible] >> that's correct. most of the problems were dealt with definitively yesterday. however, in acute trauma situations at times we will do

an operative procedure to stabilize the patient then bring the patient back a day or several days lateer to complete things that need to be dealt with at that time. so there is a possibility that some of that will need to be done in the next several days. >> can you tell us how long you were in surgery, how many people -- [inaudible] >> we had obviously a large number of surgeons involved in the operating room. we had, i would say, in addition to emergency room staff physicians, residences, ancillary staff, we had more than 20 surgeons immobilized to the operating room yesterday. at least half were operating until late last evening. >> you are listening there to dr. smith at scott white hospital. that's where ten of the 30 people wounded in yesterday's shooting were transported. at this point we know that 13 people have died. 30 are wounded again. 10 of them taken to this hospital there. 15 of those 30 we do know needed surgery. we are constantly being updated on their conditions and we will continue following this and

learn more about it. we did know that the shooter himself, major hasan is also one of those people wounded. no word yet on if he needs surgery or the latest condition there. but of course we are following this. as always can you find the latest information on this developing story on our website right now, fox baltimore.com. we will be updating you more throughout the day and on fox 45 news at 5:30. now we will check in with meteorologist steve fertig and see if he has brighter news for our future. >> actually we have a very nice weekend with suns shines coming your way. radar, cool today with clear skies we start off rather chilly. we don't have the snow they have in northern part of the new york sit. though that is dissipating some as we teak. high pressure builds in them then. northwest wind at 8 miles an hour. 51% relative humidity. dry and indicating high pressure is building. because it is rising right now. 26 is dew point. again another dry indication. 43° for temperature in baltimore

and d.c. 44 in salisbury. 40° in hagerstown and 30 in oakland where it's been chilly. again it'll start that way and end that way through the entire weekend. a northerly flow on the east side of high pressure. on the back side of that high it will warm up as we get into your saturday. and especially sunday and into the beginning of next work week. we keep our eye on tropical depression moving off to honduras, and it may be effecting the florida coastline by next week. so well watch. that temperatures on the cool side for one more day. 51° for the high in eastern shore with plenty of sunshine. the central part of the state gets up to 51° with northwesterly flow. 10 to 20 miles an hour winds. winds pick up later as well. pretty day with sunshine and back west also have you plenty of sun. 49° for the high. and 15 mile-an-hour wind there. tonight, 32°. overnight low cold one. and freeze warning for all of the counties on west side of the

chesapeake bay and southern part of eastern shores. take a note of that. a cold one tonight. 61° for high today. well rebound of that. and 55 and sunshine with few clouds. temperatures in mid 50's with for the next few days through. veteran's day with high of 60. we have powerful radar it track storms. you will see when rain or snow will be over your house. good to foxbaltimore.com and click on i radar. here is candace once again. >> thank you, steve. now they are finally going back up, 95 in northeast corner at 51 miles an hour and 61 on 95 through city and fort mchenry tunnel. as for the beltway we need to hone in on that. we can still use here to finally clear up. we are loving this. with those inearned outer loop

lanes towards 70. there is a new accident involving a car that also road into the ditch on 695. that's right at shannonsbury road. we will continue to monitor conditions there. for the beltway and 97, nothing to report through anne arundel county area. stay left to pass by that scene there. and a little bit further down, a very serious crash and medevac has been requested. route 175 at gambles road. no problems to guys remember, we're a solar system. mars is down...and... um, it's only 10am.

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good morning to you guys. what a remarkable story for such a little girl to have done. >> absolutely. you know, obviously elena is passing on messages to us and hopefully through the book we can pass on messages to other people as well as our younger daughter, gracey. >> when did you fine the first night in how long afterwards did you find it? >> we started a remodeling project a couple days before elaine why was diagnosed. our house was open to the elements so you can't really stop. and by didn't finish it until after she was done but it forced us to live in one room pry marely. as we started to move notes into the new portion of the house, or move books into the new portion of the house we started to find notes between books and in between dishes, in between cd's and so forth. we found the first one or two. we didn't really think anything of. it you don't really think she is hiding notes for you or anything of the sort. but when you start finding 20, 30, 40 of them, then you start

realizing there is something more to it. all of the notes add universal message of i love you, mom, dad and grace. >> i can't imagine what you must have been feeling when you started finding note after note after note. when you read them, what does it make you think? >> it's so much what elena was in her lifetime. she is bringing it even after she's passed. and she was a nurturer and she loved to think of other people before herself. and this is just one more way of her showing us that she was thinking of us before you know this awful reality of her diagnosis. she wanted to leave us these notes. and it means so much to us. >> did you have any idea that she had been doing that this is. >> we really didn't. >> no. >> you know, you -- >> you are so -- you're so involved with the day-to-day care and not thinking about anything outside of just, taking care of her you know, doing the

iv medicines and all that. and i guess looking back at some point we should have wondered, okay, she sat there all day long and was drying and writing, where did all those go. but your mind is so focused on dealing with your child whose going through the worst of the worst -- >> part of you, as we read some of these notes and we look back on t you almost wish that you did know. because you know, maybe we could would have hugged her a little bit more tightly. maybe we would have written notes to her as well. the idea that she sat there and wrote notes while we is were oblivious to it, that a hard feeling as well. >> brooke and keith, it has it make you proud her artwork is featured next to picassos and lets you know she is always with you. thanks for sharing your story. elena's parents have v taken her

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>> halloween has come and gone. so what do you do with those punkins sitting on your porch? you chunk them. the annual world championship pumpkin chunkin contest kicks off today. and frank joins us live with a preview. good morning, frank, how are you? >> good morning, once again i'm -- [inaudible] >> we lost frank. i tell you what, of all interviewes it lose, this is such a neat contest they are doing right now. they are trying to tank punkins an put them into catapults and all kind of contraptions they have made and they are trying to shoot it a mile away. hopefully we get frank back. the contest kicks off today. in 2007 they had thousands and thousands of people. so very cool contest. we will check in with meteorologist steve fertig who has a cool thing with him. good morning steve. >> good morning, megan. you can have sunshine on a cloudy day. this is sunshine.

even on a sunday day. look how cute she is. she 17 years old but she needs a home of the she is a shepherd mix, i'm told. i think there's a little yell why lab in there. i'm just guessing though. if you want sunshine to be part of your family, call the spsca or go to our website, and tell them, i want some sunshine. she is so cute. all right. we want to get you caught up on what is happening weatherwise. a cool day. 51° for high and sunshine coming your way. not just today but for the weekend. entirely. with temperatures that will moderate tomorrow. 58° for the high temperature then and then look for temperatures to evolve more. 55° by sunday. you should be looking really nice then and feel going too. 66° monday. 66 again tuesday. veteran's day, cooler. little cooler than average. 57 for the high and partly cloudy sky, 566 for your thursday. >> sunday, an bat day to go and hang out with your friends to

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and scrooge. >> get in the holiday spirit. >> exactly. >> that's good. >> it should be -- >> we when were showing the pumpkin chunkin, there was snow on the floor of delaware. >> what happened with him, he just froze. you just watch and you go, holy mackerel. >> that's what we say around here today. holy mackerel. we cannot believe, that one of our co-workers is leaving us an moving on to better things. but i can tell you, christine, come up here. good luck, christine. we hope you all have a wonderful weekend. see you monday. >> you don't see the people behind the scenes? z thank you and good luck. >> happy travels. >> thank you. real-time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning company